Are you aware of our project, Taverna? We're working with various groups, mostly up at Newcastle and Manchester but also here at the EBI to provide workflow based technology for bioinformatics. Specifically, we have a system, Soaplab, that can wrap arbitrary command line tools as services (currently applies to all the EMBOSS tools but we can easily extend it), courtesy of Martin Senger's work here, and the Taverna project itself which allows users to create workflows out of both Soaplab's services and arbitrary SOAP based web services (we could add Corba, OGSA, RMI etc if needed). It's open source (LGPL) and on sourceforge (taverna.sf.net), and is in use 'in anger' in several complex bioinformatics analysis projects.
May I humbly request that you take a look before writing something similar, and if possible join our development effort?
Matthew - you're both on this list and working up at Newcastle, does this seem reasonable? I'll be up in a few weeks to talk to the biologists, perhaps we could get together over a drink or several and see how Taverna and Biojava could play together?
Cheers,
Tom
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